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...consulted her mother-in-law, Princess Margareta, of the German House of Hesse, about the sentimental privilege. The 74-year-old sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II had hesitated; there were complications. Friedrichshof, her turreted, 80-room castle near the Hessian town of Kronberg, was overrun with American officers who seemed to be using it for a Bierhalle while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried...
...Lichfield Trial (TIME, Feb. 25) went on the road. From London, where it had been a one-ring circus, it was transferred to Bad Nauheim. Along the roads leading to the Hessian spa were signs in the shaving-cream tradition: "Five miles to Lichfield trials," "Four miles. . . ," etc. In the streets, there was more glittering brass than could be found anywhere outside the Pentagon...
...first lands him in the Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus...
Casadesus made an annual U.S. tour, and in 1940 brought Gaby and their two sons for a holiday. When the Nazis invaded France, the family decided to stay, and subleased* the oldest (preRevolutionary) stone house in Princeton, N.J., complete with Hessian ghost...
...rolling Hessian hills, 40 miles southwest of Kassel, tankmen of the U.S. 3rd Armored Division (First Army) ran into a furious battle last week. Germans leveled antiaircraft guns, fought for the little town of Bromskirchen as if it were Berchtesgaden itself. Finally the Americans silenced the guns and learned why that pin point on the map had been so important to the Germans : aboard flatcars on a railroad siding were a dozen new V-2 rockets. They were taken intact...